Appealing, Appalling: Morality and Revenge in I Spit on Your Grave

Steve Jones

Appealing, Appalling: Morality and Revenge in I Spit on Your Grave

School of Design Arts and Creative Industries

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Using I Spit on Your Grave as a case study, Dr Steve Jones argues that revenge films perform a moral sleight of hand, using narrative tricks to mask how ethically unacceptable revenge is.
#horrorNU

Original language	English
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 3 Dec 2025

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Horror Studies Research Group

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Appealing, Appalling: Morality and Revenge in I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Jones, S., 1 Aug 2023, In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 40, 6, p. 739-763 25 p.
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Appealing, Appalling: Morality and Revenge in I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

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